Evaluating Early Multimodal Fusion in Discrete Latent World Models for Robot Navigation

M. Mondal Mohammad Nazeri Ruben Hammele S. Huber Alexandyr Card Anuj Pokhrel Daeun Song S. Pirk Xue-Su Xiao

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